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Rep. Dan Maffei will host January job fair with two dozen Central New York employers

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U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, D-Syracuse, will host a jobs fair next month at the Holiday Inn in Salina with more than two dozen employers from Central New York. The fair will be similar to one pictured above, where veteran Luis Gomez (seated center), 40, from Dover, N.J., hands his resume to a representative from White Rose Foods during a 2012 job fair at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
(Tina Fineberg / AP)

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei plans to host a job and opportunity fair for Central New Yorkers next month that will include at least two dozen local employers from the private sector, government and nonprofit agencies.

The free fair will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Holiday Inn, 441 Electronics Parkway, Salina.

Maffei, D-Syracuse, said today that the fair builds on his work to increase economic opportunities for job seekers in Central New York and connect local employers with skilled workers.

Maffei's announcement comes as about 1.3 million Americans, and 127,100 in New York state, are due to lose their long-term federal unemployment insurance benefits at the end of this week. Congress decided against extending the benefits in the bipartisan budget bill approved last week.